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Overture (4:38) -- "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire" (5:06) -- "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" (4:00) -- "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (1:15) -- "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (4:55) -- "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (2:49) -- "Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!" (1:19) -- "Opprest with never-ceasing grief" (3:33) -- "Dry those unavailing tears" (2:13) -- "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (2:35) -- "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (1:14) -- "Behold the monstrous human beast" (3:16) -- "Can you then think it strange" (0:16) -- "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (3:49) -- "My friends, be confident" (0:41) -- "All empires upon God depend" (3:15) -- "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!" (5:14) -- "Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus" (3:00) -- "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" (4:11) -- "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (5:03) -- "For you, my friends" (0:54) -- "The leafy honours of the field" (7:34) -- "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (1:23) -- "Recall, oh king! thy rash command" (3:54) -- "They tell you true" (1:23) -- "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!" (7:15) -- "By slow degrees the wrath of God" (4:16) -- "See, from his post Euphrates flies!" (6:27) -- "You see, my friends, a path" (0:46) -- "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (4:24) -- "To arms, to arms! no more delay!" (0:35) -- "Ye tutelar gods of our empire" (2:59) -- "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" (2:38) -- "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" (2:41) -- "Call all my Wise Men" (0:26) -- A Sinfony (1:43) -- "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" / "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes" (1:06) -- "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!" (1:50) -- "Oh king, live for ever!" (1:40) -- "No! to thyself thy trifles be" (1:31) -- "Yet, to obey his dread command" (3:13) -- "Oh sentence too severe!" / "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" (6:57) -- "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" (4:37) -- "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" (1:02) -- "Oh glorious prince!" (4:41) -- "Alternate hopes and fears" (4:28) -- "Fain would I hope" (0:23) -- "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" (2:26) -- "My hopes revive" (1:51) -- "Bel boweth down!" (1:31) -- "I thank thee, Sesach" (1:38) -- A Martial Symphony (0:39) -- "To pow'r immortal my first thanks" (2:45) -- "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know" (2:55) -- "Great victor, at your feet I bow" (3:59) -- "Say, venerable prophet" (0:56) -- "Tell it out among the heathen" (1:38) -- "Yes, I will build thy city" (2:22) -- "I will magnify thee" (5:28)